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Editorial ripped sincere effort by president

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I respond to the Thursday
Dispatch editorial “A lack of leadership.”
The Dispatch accused President Barack Obama of “not dealing in good faith” after he has
compromised and compromised — after he has offered more than $1 trillion in cuts and even offered
cuts (which I am totally against) to Medicare and Social Security in his budget plan. Yet, the
editorial cited him for lack of leadership? One has to love Republican House Speaker John Boehner.
He proclaimed that not renewing the tax breaks for the 1 percent constitutes all the additional
revenues he's willing to approve.

He has to protect all the loopholes that even Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
wanted to close. He has to protect billions to Big Oil (those billions from gouging us at the pumps
aren't enough to support massive contributions to GOP coffers). He has to protect the tax breaks to
corporations shipping our jobs overseas. He has to protect those tax shelters in the Caymans.

Oh, by the way, rather than even pretend to deal with the crisis he helped create, Boehner takes
a long weekend after Thursday noon. Had to get some time off after the 31/2 days of hard work
following the last break the House took.

The editorial attacked the president because the tea party House is successfully running a
wrecking ball through an economy that was on the verge of recovery. The newspaper aids and abets
the party that would rather see the country destroyed than allow a Democrat to fix all that the
Republicans have brought to ruin.